ORIGINAL: alleyyooper
I am a reformed Nosler fan. Tired of buying 50 bullets at the price double other very good bullets I started experminting.
In my 50 Cals I like the 250gr. t0 300gr. Speer Gold dots in MMP sabots. In the 54 I use the50 cal 300gr. hollow pointSpeer Gold Dots in MMP purple sabots. I also think a person couldn't go wrong with those XTP's which have killed hundreds of deer since sabots were first interduced. But if your made of money and it grows ont the trees around your property do go with the Nosler partitons.
Al
I have about 40 Noslers left myself, and I have about 4 boxes of 50 of the 300g Gold Dots. I will let my son shoot the Noslersup this year in his Knight LRH, I will switch to the GD. I plan on shooting the Gold Dots in my Omega, but in my Savage I plan on staying with a Barnes Origonal or a Barnes 45843 TSX Flat nose. I hear ya, I am falling off that Nosler wagon myself based on education of this board---SL shooting Gold Dots, Semisane pictures of Gold Dot performance. Lee Lemoye liking the Gold Dots and having good results with them, I cango on and on withnames that have cemented my attitude toward GD. I have heard no problems with the Gold Dots, we are all in the process of learning.I do believe the very best bullet on the market today based on COST and PERFORMANCE is the Speer GD, however if you forget cost and want to just go performance. Then Nosler Partition and Barnes are the go to bullets. I can't argue your utility metric of cost and performance, since that is your personal choice set. If another person's personal choice set is performance only, then they will go with the best. Some argue that that they have a 45K truck a 150K land and cabin a 1200 scope/gun combo, what the heck is a $1 bullet? For those folk who only argue performance go with Barnes MZ, TMZ or 45843 TSX 300g Flat Nose. So it depends on your choise set. if your choice set is cost only then you will go with XTPs since they are a bit less than the GD. So it is "your choice utility function" in economics. In my pervious post I said my choice set of variables was
performance and morality
I tried to tie morality into the decision, because I believe it to be important, because God says it is. He calls folks wicked if they are cruel to a beast. I don't want to be cruel to a beast in killing it.
So allyyooper your chose utility function is cost and performance. Other folks have other choise utility functions. Now we are gettin' "high fallutin".
Happy 4th and my God bless you and your family and your hunting,
Chap